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Antiphonary single leaf (MS M.701).

Accession number
MS M.701
Object title
Antiphonary single leaf (MS M.701).
Created
Northern Italy, second half of the 15th century.
Credit line
Purchased in 1926.
Description
1 leaf, matted : vellum, ill. ; 205 x 206 mm
Provenance
Purchased from Paul Gottschalk of Berlin in Feb. 1926 (listed in his 1925 catalogue 8, no. 115, plate 7; where it is described as Italian, 15th century, from Padua, probably school of Padua).
Notes
Ms. antiphonary single leaf (cutting); written and illuminated in northern Italy in the second half of the 15th century.
Musical notation: 4-line staves in red ink; square notes in brown ink.
Texts: on the recto is a fragment of the response after the 8th lesson in matins for the feast of December 25; on the verso is a fragment of the 1st antiphon of lauds for the feast of December 25.
Decoration: historiated initial Q depicting the Annunciation to the Shepherds.
Script
textura.
Language
Latin
Century
Classification